As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BIDMC-MILTON HOSPITAL INC

CMS id: 220108
199 REEDSDALE ROAD, MILTON MA 2186. County: LAKE
System: BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH
CBSA: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

The 102-bed, acute-care hospital had $3,734,741 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 8.87752% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.53% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $2,648,727 in Medicaid shortfall.

* For more about Net Service to Patients and operating revenue, please the finance section below.

Note: Medians are from acute-care hospitals with "complete" fiscal years. For more about how we calculated medians and cost reports in general, please click here.

Details

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
# of days in fyear	365	365	365	366	365
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	80 118	94 118	94 119.5	94 118	94 119
Total beds Median	88 162	102 162	102 162	102 162	102 163.5
FTEs Median	592.08 788.06	602.00 793.42	632.59 806.03	608.07 787.61	657.00 804.34

Finances As they appear in worksheet G3 of the cost reports.

Note: Net Patient Revenue is considered operating revenue, which means Net Service to Patients is considered operating profit. Click here for more about cost report financials

Hospital cost reports are an enormously complicated dataset. There are whole organizations and an offical CMS vendor dedicated to helping researchers work with the data.
It's important to understand that hospital financials in cost reports are not organized in the same as other sources such as annual financial reports to bond holders.

The biggest difference is the concept of operating revenue and profit. Net Service to patients (NS2P), which is the sum of net patient revenue minus operating expenses, is considered the equivalent of operating profit according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). See the last paragraph of "Primary Data Sources" on page 55 of Annual Analysis of Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments to States (PDF).

That would make Net Patient Revenue = operating revenue.

All this makes things challenging when comparing what's reported in cost reports to other sources. It becomes clearer when you consider that, beyond the purpose of reimbursement, cost reports are a tool for policymakers trying to understand the financial situation of a hospital doing the tasks specific to hospitals.

In other words, while a facility with a division that formulates drugs might include earnings from that as operating revenue in their corporate annual result, this is not central to the operations of a hospital caring for patients and so it is counted as "other income." (See below the financials section for more on "other income")

The healthcare consulting firm HMP, in a former partnership with Modern Healthcare, did develop a formula for estimating operating revenue closer to what one might find in other sources. We no longer use this for the following reasons:

The measure was not widely used beyond HMP and Modern Healthcare. Many hospitals had their own internal estimates of operating revenue and profit.
Because of this, there was confusion when reporting operating results for individual hospitals. There was often pushback when a facility's internal numbers did not match what Modern Healthcare was reporting.
The formula includes revenue from portions of the "other income" section, which may also include non-operating revenue. HMP themselves point out in a caveat on their site that they cannot exclude all non-operating revenue from their measure.

HMP's operating measure has proven problematic in the past for our reporting and the partnership with them ended years ago. It's best to not use a measure that we alone cannot defend.

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Net patient revenue ? Median	105,777,051 150,932,746	117,872,000 158,950,878	123,319,590 168,696,998	116,010,475 163,454,693	139,982,157 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	105,465,804 149,311,209	117,435,000 156,110,414	121,201,280 164,890,568	121,983,040 166,516,854	136,247,416 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	311,247 -964,173	437,000 -643,601.5	2,118,310 -116,254	-5,972,565 -5,025,862	3,734,741 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	0.29% -0.62	0.37% -0.29	1.72% 0.18	-5.15% -5.07	2.67% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BIDMC-MILTON HOSPITAL INC compared to all** acute-care hospitals, from CMS cost reports.
Note: NS2P is considered operating margin by MACPAC. The chart below is interactive: click or touch to see more.

* Data range does not show outliers, which fall beyond the minimum and maximum of the range.
** From cost reports with complete fiscal years. Number of acute-care hospitals available to calculate medians:

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
3,157	3,092	3,050	3,052	2,566

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Other income* Median Click here to show/hide details	13,907,570 5,089,215	5,411,000 4,572,541	4,171,894 5,268,134	15,293,420 13,092,619	9,539,039 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	0 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	264,593 299,524	365,859 188,688.5	291,401 370,813	311,576 309,361.5	355,650 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	651	274	854	458	-13,186
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	120,566	182,768	130,487	131,572	388,748
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	462,581	490,928	515,202	400,876	404,588
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	2,692	2,400	841	873	467
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	7,180	9,240	7,240	6,475	4,777
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	10,809	10,592	11,873	9,625	7,047
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	0 1,173,286	0 1,987,202	0 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	13,038,498	4,348,939	3,213,996	14,431,965	8,390,948
Total income ? Median	14,218,817 6,586,430	5,848,000 6,767,106	6,290,204 8,419,950	9,320,855 8,094,175	13,273,780 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	14,218,817 6,043,842	5,848,000 5,845,112	6,290,204 7,606,259	9,320,855 7,283,041	13,273,780 14,957,241
Net margin Median	11.88024% 4.62%	4.74356% 4.42%	4.93382% 5.16%	7.09869% 5.2%	8.87752% 9.25%

* About "Other income": Other income, or line 25 in worksheet G3, is the sum of lines 6 through 24. It includes three lines that are considered non-operating revenue - contributions, investments and government appropriations. Medians are included for these three lines. It also contains items that are not central to providing healthcare, such as revenue from parking or gift shops.
"Sum Line 24" is a special case. Called "Other (specify)" in the cost reports, CMS allows for this line to be "subscripted," or divided into sublines like 002400, 002401, 002402. And hospitals do that, up to 100 lines, to detail income (and sometimes negative returns) that are otherwise not covered in the previous "other" lines. Therefore, "Sum Line 24" is the sum of all the lines 24.

Range* of total profit (loss) margins

= Total margin for BIDMC-MILTON HOSPITAL INC compared to all** acute-care hospitals, from CMS cost reports.
The chart below is interactive: click or touch to see more.

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
3,157	3,092	3,050	3,052	2,566

Medicare revenue

Inpatient and outpatient revenue

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
All inpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	28,827,886 23,241,334	30,829,277 23,709,545	33,257,288 24,248,380	31,297,186 22,858,541	32,863,283 23,620,613
"All inpatient revenue" is made up of any Medicare payments for routine inpatient, swingbed SNFs, TEFRA, IPF, IRF, inpatient long-term care, CAH and inpatient SNF facilities. Medians are only calculated when there are sufficient facilities reporting revenue.
⊳ Routine inpatient revenue ⊳ Median	28,827,886 21,577,146	30,829,277 22,041,594	33,257,288 22,722,063	31,297,186 21,570,441	32,863,283 22,140,684
⊳ Swingbeds ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act payments (TEFRA) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) ⊳ Median	0 1,845,420	0 1,757,392	0 1,738,842	0 1,510,463	0 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	0 3,535,627	0 3,746,588	0 3,782,288	0 3,865,578	0 3,983,889
⊳ Long-term care hospital (LTCH) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Critical-access hospitals ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Skilled-nursing facilities (SNF) ⊳ Median	0 1,203,033	0 1,215,295	0 1,313,657	0 1,365,298	0 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	11,979,636 11,160,864	13,127,169 11,987,345	13,453,447 12,926,866	10,889,300 11,884,480	13,581,477 13,145,163
"All outpatient revenue" is made up of any payments for routine outpatient, HHA, CMHC, rural health and other federally-qualified health clinics. Medians are only calculated when there are sufficient facilities reporting revenue.
⊳ Routine outpatient revenue ⊳ Median	11,979,636 10,918,923	13,127,169 11,706,976	13,453,447 12,615,917	10,889,300 11,458,116	13,581,477 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	0 1,282,808	0 1,407,728	0 1,341,512	0 1,407,046	0 1,476,867
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	0 618,038	0 697,279	0 690,232	0 684,010	0 670,558
⊳ Other federally qualified health clinics ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --

Other payments

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Graduate Medical Education (GME) Median	0 3,284,314	0 3,250,551	0 3,386,837	0 3,360,806	0 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	0 594,888	0 595,761	0 577,894	0 542,168	0 549,667
Outlier Median	71,613 582,572	113,690 538,116	7,070 212,434	13,214 126,559	17,346 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	2,103,270 3,662,910	1,470,802 3,730,911	2,537,684 4,081,319	2,929,497 4,643,908	2,648,727 4,389,147
Charity care Median	457,269 2,654,636	375,165 2,940,659	348,822 3,380,215	380,369 3,488,738	231,026 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	2,135,490 5,147,790	2,358,755 5,337,617	2,718,767 5,711,082	2,947,798 5,923,418	3,449,671 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.02% 3.24	2.01% 3.12	2.24% 3.21	2.42% 3.3	2.53% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	4,238,760 9,489,989	3,829,557 9,424,297	5,256,451 10,120,158	5,877,295 11,171,337	6,098,398 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	42,409,208 52,142,039	44,459,293 54,485,252	47,229,225 57,395,589	47,209,570 58,830,919	49,798,647 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	40.21 36.68	39.94 36.56	38.97 36.37	38.70 35.93	36.55 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	0 2,598,592	0 2,686,824	0 2,753,773	0 2,937,156	0 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 1,251,927	0 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	0 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	1,277,352 1,449,244	115,701 1,475,986	0 1,563,078	1,141,007 1,721,954	3,417,085 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	19,391.00 22,725	2,145.00 23,018.5	0.00 24,503.48	34,640.75 25,026.5	62,836.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	65.87 64.67	53.94 64.53	0.00 65.06	32.94 68.97	54.38 88.94

* in an approved program

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Cost reports are self-reported by the facility, are subject to revision and should be considered preliminary.

* Net Service to patients (NS2P) equals net patient revenue minus operating expenses. NS2P is considered the equivalent of operating profit according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). See the last paragraph of "Primary Data Sources" on page 55 of Annual Analysis of Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments to States (PDF).

About medians

Medians are calculated from reports with "complete" fiscal years, or reports with fiscal years of at least 300 days and no more than 420 days.

In cases where there are fewer than 50 values reported, medians are not calculated. For childrens' hospitals, it's when fewer than 20 are reported.

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